European elections - in pictures

People across Europe are voting in elections, be it for a new president in France, the national parliament in Greece, local elections in Germany and Italy, or in Serbia, where voters are casting their ballots for all three

Voters clutch their ballots at a polling station in Cvitavecchia, outside Rome. Italians went to the polls today in local elections that will provide the first test for Prime Minister Mario Monti's increasingly unpopular austerity policies